Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could drive from here to California on a Dickens," claims Jeanne Sullivan, a librarian in Oak Park, Ill. The point is well taken; the library's copy of David Copperfield is 22 cassettes long. Says Birmingham Photographer Mike Clemmer: "I haven't made any long car trips, but when I do, I'll buy a book on tape. No more lousy radio music or CB chatter for me." Lynn Kirk, a real estate investor from Ojai, Calif., admits, "I am definitely addicted to books on tape. I cannot get into my car without them. There are no commercials...
...Beirut's once thriving European and American communities, which at their height numbered in the tens of thousands. The staunchest Western holdouts: the academic fraternity, which had made Beirut into the regional center of higher education. But the execution of three hostages--two British teachers and an American librarian --in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya in April persuaded most of the few remaining Westerners to leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there was no longer any hope." Those who remain behind bemoan...
...Lebanon, gunmen dumped the corpses of three Western hostages on a road in the Chouf Mountains east of Beirut. The victims were identified as American University Librarian Peter Kilburn, 60, who had disappeared in Beirut in December 1984; and Leigh Douglas, 34, and Philip Padfield, 40, two British teachers who had been abducted three weeks before their murder. The men were among 18 British, French, U.S. and other hostages being held in Lebanon. A stenciled statement found near the bloodstained bodies said they had been killed in retaliation for the U.S. air strike against Libya. The statement was signed...
...Library Committee further infuriated some male students by beginning to hire women, especially wives of Harvard students, to staff Lamont's front desk. Theodore G. Alevizos, then Lamont librarian, explained that women were "more stable" than the non-Harvard male employees he had previously hired...
...change "proved to be a very ordinary and straight-forward thing," according to Heather E. Cole, the current librarian of Lamont...